Some people say that TV, movies, and computer games cause violence. Other people say “What about the Crusades?”. And thus the argument rages on … until this video was posted on the internet
YouTube – Real Wolverine Claws – Homemade – X-Men.
That’s right. Real Wolverine claws.
Comic books cause violence, it’s official. It would appear that they also cause engineering, which is not as bad.
Webshooters next?

Scott from Comic Book Outsiders has set up a Twitter bot that will be re-tweeting any tweets that contain the words “Bristol” and “comic” over this weekend.
Follow the bot here: http://twitter.com/BristolConBot

An excellent, albeit short, interview with Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill by the guys from Geek Syndicate is now now available online.
Alan’s advice? “Self publish“. Phew, glad I was on the right track!

More MWM Live practice. This one took a little longer, had trouble getting rid of the word “crawl” from the list of random words.

Travis woke up, still tied to the bed. He couldn’t see Laura, but could hear movement downstairs. Cups clicked together, water pouring. He guessed that she was making tea, and was surprised that he didn’t immediately want some. Looking up, he could see why.
Banging on the surface of the mirror that hung above Laura’s bed, desperately trying to break through from the other side, from whatever …

More practice for Monkeys with Machineguns Live!
Found a fantastic site for generating random ideas, http://shortstoryideas.herb.me.uk/index.html, which I will blog about later. In the meantime, here’s the end of the line.

Vera had heard about the telephone box. It was the last one left in the county, apparently, sitting quietly on the corner of the village green. It was never vandalised, unlike the play area just a few yards away, never put into service as a make shift toilet or short term accommodation for teenagers overcome by hormones and cheap cider.
No, …

More MWM Live practice. This time I try to fit Hitler, a museum, and a monkey covered in jam onto one side of A5.
It is a little known fact that Hitler maintained a secret museum, three storeys below his bunker in the heart of Berlin. At first, it was home to the ransacked treasures of the nations crushed under the Nazi jackboot but, as the war came towards its end and Hitler’s mania for the esoteric and the occult reached its height, the museum became home to artifacts and relics …